Plop Linux History

My idea was to create a small and easy to use rescue Linux. However, over
the years it became bigger and more powerful. Here is a short overview of important
events.

2003 - First public release 1.0 / 1.x

After a few years of linux experience, I decided to make a own small linux distribution.

Boot: with a compiled linuxrc. I modified the linuxrc of Paul Hayter for my needs and how I thought in which way Plop Linux should boot.
Kernel: compiled by myself
Boot from: ISO, Floppy, chain load USB
Programs: programs collected and compiled by myself with Redhat Linux, some binaries taken from Redhat Linux
Size: about 40MB

2004 - Version 2.x releases

Only updates for the public version

Non public: With the help of the Linux from Scratch project I created my own
minimal Linux that has GCC. From that point I was free from Linux Distributions
and able to do my own stuff. Before, I used a small Redhat installation as base
for years and compiled
all I needed by myself. Now, with the small base Linux it was no problem to do all by myself and life without distributions.

Non public version to boot from the XBOX

2005 - Version 3.0

Programs from myself compiled Linux.
Boot process converted from the static binary to my scripts to boot the Live Plop Linux.
Changed to squashfs 3.0
Separate archive for booting from USB.

Non public version to boot from the XBOX

2005 - Version 3.2.1

Last public version with booting from floppy

2006 - Version 3.3

Size: 69MB

2009 - Version 3.7.18

opt.sqfs with Fluxbox and Gnome

2009 - 2012 - Version 4.x releases

Network boot.
Changed to squashfs 4.0.
Varoius software updates.

See the Change Log for more info's.

2012 - Version 4.2.0

Live Version with support for blind people (brltty, Orca) + preconfigured.
New developer release + separated Xorg and Gnome archives.
New network boot options: TFTP, FTP, HTTP

2013

Plop Linux rebuild from scratch with latest software releases.
Switched to systemd, but finally switched back to SysV.
Gnome replaced with Xfce